History Intent, Implementation and Impact 

Intent

At Park Road, children will deepen and embed their historical knowledge through a cohesive and sequential schema, which develop the skills of enquiry and chronology, which are taught intrinsically throughout the curriculum. Our children will therefore be provided with the key skills to enable them to become confident, resourceful historians.

Implementation

History will be implemented through:

• beginning their historical journey in Reception, where they will access History through Understanding of the World. Clear links with Year 1 are made, to ensure children are beginning to develop their foundational knowledge at the very beginning of their school journey
• the Curriculum is based on the National Curriculum from Key Stage 1 -2, and enquiry-based learning is at the heart of our learning, with each topic having an overarching question
• skills and knowledge are planned sequentially on the Medium-Term Plan, incorporating key vocabulary, skills and end points.
• retrieval is integral to our lessons, and this is to enable the children to have the opportunity to recap over previous learning or to consolidate new learning. Staff plan a range of retrieval activities to start each lesson. It also forms part of our assessment and allows for gaps in learning or misconceptions to be addressed quickly and effectively
• cross-curricular links are planned carefully and intrinsically with other subjects. History is interspersed with the curriculum to give children the ability to see the wider picture and make key links across the whole curriculum
• SMSC is carefully threaded through the History Curriculum
• the Learning Environment/ working walls reflect the learning that is happening each term, as well as the sequence of learning, and demonstrates the scaffolding of each lesson to enable them to answer the main question presented to them at the beginning of their enquiry

Impact

Children become confident and resourceful historians, using enquiry language to analyse artefacts and sources of evidence to help them achieve their own balanced judgments of how historical events have shaped Britain and the wider world.

Children build upon their historical knowledge each year, allowing them to recall and retrieve key facts and knowledge.

Children learn the importance of chronology and how events have changed over a length of time.

By the end of year 6, children will have a good foundation of historical concepts, which are- Community, Change and Continuity, Legacy, Monarchy, Cause and Continuity, Settlements and Civilisation.

History Curriculum Documents

Geography and History

Click on the National Curriculum image for the National Curriculum programme of study for History